Diana Manos
According to a senior policy advisor for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), this year's top Democrat healthcare agenda includes "major" expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Pr...
The nation's federal healthcare IT czar, Robert Kolodner, MD, said today that the government's entire focus for healthcare IT advancement is to improve care. Kolodner, pro...
Despite recent survey findings that show 80 percent of the 24 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D are satisfied with the program, the Senate Finance Committee has concerns that vulnerable low-...
The number of companies participating in President Bush's plan for value-driven healthcare has skyrocketed from 175 in January to more than 775. Department of Health and Huma...
Pay for performance is not a trial program, as far as the federal government is concerned. According to the head of the federal P4P, Thomas Valuck, MD, director of t...
WASHINGTON – Nearly one-third of American health consumers are intolerant of even the slightest inaccuracies in reporting physician performance ratings, a recent study found. Matthew Davi...
Congress has introduced a bipartisan proposal to expand and streamline State Children's Health Insurance Programs. Under the Healthy Kids Act of 2007, sponsored by Reps. Rahm Em...
SAN FRANCISCO – Practice Fusion, Inc., an electronic healthcare vendor launched last August, recently announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free elect...
WASHINGTON – A group of Democrats and other supporters are calling for a law that would allow government officials to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. According to Sen. D...
Today there is hardly a more hotly debated topic than pay-for-performance, or P4P. And yet, despite all the brouhaha, it’s still only a distant speck on the horizon. In line with t...